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Insight
Watergate
clouds hang;
lives change
One year later,
goslty still free
waiting appeals
By Jane Deaisaa
United Press lateraatifteal
WASHINGTON It was a sonny,
almost oahny New Year's Day in
Washmgtcn last year, and in the clot
tered pressroom at the federal
courthouse a few reporters were
pSaying poker tcr paper clips.
Tbe stakes were far hitter down
the darkened seccad- fioo- r corndor
wfaere in a suite of offices reserved
for then-- use, John N Mitchell, HA
Haldeman, Join D Ertdtehtntta,
Robert C Mardian and Kenneth W
Parkinson awaited fee Watergate
verdict
It came abruptly gulry as ehargad
for all but Parfanscn, a iasysr far
Richard Nixon s 1972 re- electt- on cam
paign, who the jury decided had not
been part of the cover- u- p conspiracy
The jurors said the others who
bad held positions of highest public
trust were guilty of abusing their
power by plotting to cover up the
June 17, 1972, bugging of Democratic
party headquarters at the Watergate
HoteL
Mrs. Mardian stuck out her tongue
at US District Judge John J Sirica
Mitchell flushed. Haldeman s jaw
clenched Ehrhchman vowed to
establish his innocence.
Outside, the scene turned abruptly
Wagnerian heavy dark clouds rail
ed in with mighty daps of thunder
high wmas and driving ran.
Hie three month trial was over But
for the defendants the ordeal con
toued uves disrupted, financial
resources drained and legal bflbr on- pai- d,
careers shattered the prospect
cf pnson.
The sentences, meted out Feb. 21 by
Sinca, were substantial but not nearly
so stiff as they could have been For
their conspiracy and perjury, 2 to 8
years each for Mitchell, the former
attorney general and Nixon campaign
manager Haldeman, the former
White House chief of staff, and
Ehrhchman o ce N'xon s chief
domestic affairs adviser
For Mardian a former assistant at
toraey general and campaign aide, 10
months to 3 years for a single count
cf conspiracy to obstruct justice
Yet today, nothing is settled No one
has gone to jaQ and appeals have not
even been heard much less decided
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia will bear
oral arguments Jan. 6 one year
and five days after the Watergate
Four were convicted The court is
unlikely to rule for many weeks,
perhaps several months.
Although one lawyer involved in the
case conceded privately there wasn t
a cLme s worth of error" in Sirica's
handling oe tee complex and explosive
case the attorneys are trying to
overturn the convictions
Their appeals stress the massive
publicity surrounding Watergate that
the lawyers say, made fair trial im
possible.
They also faulted Sirica for refusing
to postpone the trial or move it away
from Washington and for allegedly
not trying hard enough to screen out
biased jurors Erhlichman, in
particular complained that he had
been deprived of his crucial defense
witness, Nixon himself
The former president was excused
from testifying because his phlebitis
brought him near death while the
trial was in progress according to
his own doctors and a court appointed
( See DEFENDANTS, Page M)
"--
C-- ' ." -- OCXS??
feSfl. Yesr- No.- 84. Good Morning! jt8 Thursday, Jammary I, 1976 3 SectkMW-- 34 Page- s- 15 Genta
All that ranasns of a staffed elephant, purchased by
brmer University president Samuel Laws m the
188Cs, is its bones. The body of what once was the
second largest Indian elephant in the world has
deteriorated overthe years. Rs bones are now In the
attic of Lefevre HaB ( Missocrian photo by Bart
Burungame)
MU white elephants
bones of The Emperor
ByDaaDeyle
ASsaooriaa staff writer
The Unrversity acquired two major
curiosities m the 1296s during the ad- txnnlstra- don
of University President
Samuel Laws the carcass oi the sec-ond
largest Indian elephant in cap-tivity
and the original gravestone of
Thomas Jefferson Both are
languishing in obscurity on the
University campus.
" The Emperor an Indian elephant
second in sue only to Barnum and
Bailey's ' Jumbo died woile w. fth a
traveling carcus m Liberty, Mo Whsn
Laws heard of the animals demise,
he traveled to Liberty, purchased the
elephant and had it stuffed for the
University
He also picked up a stuffed Bengal
tiger which was fitted on the trunk of
the stuffed pachyderm. Both were
displayed in Academic KalL
The statp legislature heavily
criticised Laws for his bizarre shop-ping
spree when be a& ed for a mm
btarsement of the money he had paid
for the eleshant Th elephant was
listed under " museum supphe.
Laws temporarily pacifiea his
critics with the acquisition of the
anginal gravestone of Jefferson it
was given to the University in 1883.
Laws had persuaded the grand
daughters of Jefferson that the
gravestone should be given to the
University of Missouri because it was
the first university west of the
Mississippi and was founded on
Louisiana "? hs? c& 2e Land
The gravestone now sits behind
Jesse Hail half hidden among pine
trees.
The Emperor was dethroned
after surviving a fire that gutted
Academic Hall m 1892 and was
banished to musty isolation in the
Lefevre Hall attic, where the elephant
remains today Nobody knows what
became of the tiger
The shadows of Jesse Hall may not
be the permanent heme of the
gravestone. John F McGowan, pro-vost
for administrative affairs came
armed with maps and blueprints to a
December committee meeting of the
University Board of Curators to sup-port
moving the marker to a more
prominent spot on Francis
Quadrangle.
It s quite a thing he said ' but
no one really gets to see it Not everyone gets a chance to see
the remnants of Samuel Lavs
elephant, ttlter On rare occasions
the skua is brought down from the at
tic of Lefevre Hail for examination by
comparative aaatowy classes.
The public may get a better chance
to view the Jefferson gravestone. The
board of curators approved relocating
the monument.
The remans of ' The Emperor,'
however, are likely to remain just
another skeleton in the University
closet
:
Two boys two homes . . . which?
MOSCOW ( UPI) An apparent
mix- u- p of two babies at birth was
discovered 10 years laterand has led
to both bos being taken from their
families and put in an orphanage,
the Literary Gazette said Wed-nesday
Now one of the boys, who the
newspaper called ' nobody s child,'
receives no visitors while the other
9 gets them all.
The newspaper said the story
started on the night of Jun 12, 1883,
when a school teacher, Ksenia
Tanasov, and a housewife, Maria
Zaldo, gave birthto boys in the same
nursing home in the Moldavian
republic.
Though Mrs. Tanasov is blonde
and fair- skinne- d, the baby she was
given Valery was dark and
' gypsy- appearin- g" Mrs. Zaldo is
dark, but her baby, Sergei, was fair
The newspaper said Mrs
Tanasov's husband, Ivan, always
had doubts about his son and his wife
tried to lighten the baby's skin with
salt
When the boy was 10, Tanasov
deddec to enter biro in a boarding
school, where he saw another pupil
who locked extremely like his own
wife He arranged for blood teste to
be done and doctors announced
Sergei and Valery were the true sons
of each other's parer- ts-.
The Literary Gazette said
Tanasov started a court process to
secure Sergei as his own son When
the ruling went against him,
Tanasov took the boy by force
Valery, meanwhile, became " the
boy nobody wanted, spending a lot of
time in railroad stations and gar-dens
and sometimes being fed by the
Zaldos."
The newspaper said there is a big
difference in tie economic status of
the two families. Tanasov is an
accountant and has two houses. Mrs.
Zaldos husband is a World War n
veteran and they have nine other
children.
Eventually, the Moldavian
Supreme Court decided the two boys
should stay In an orphanage until
they reach an age they can choose
which family they want.
By the tune of the court decision,
the newspaper said, the light
skinned Sergei had been swayed by
the better living at foe Taassov's
home and decided they were his real
parents.
A reporter for the newspaper said
he visited the boys in their or-phanage
where " there were lots of
visitors for Sergei, since both the
families believe he ia their son, while
nobody goes to Valery "
Ford predicts
victory 5 vows
strong economy
WASHINGTON ( UPI) President
Ford predicted Wednesday he would
face and defeat Hubert H Humphrey
in the 197t election and said his big
gest frustration was that he coukm t
fHp a switch so " everything turns
from darkness to sunshine for the
American people.
Interviewed by 23 reporters before
Crackling gre jn me q Office
Ford expressed impatience with the
slow pace of economic improvement
and said his New Year s hope for 1978
is for " peace within ourselves.
Turning to pofittcs, he called on
Ronald Reagan and other candidates
for his job to disclose their financial
and health records as he had done for
confirmation as vice president
He promised to spend more time in
the White House, conceded he might
lose to Reagan in the early primaries
but thought he would do reasonably
well and predicted he ultimately
would win on his record He dismiss
ed any suggestion that he might drop
out at any point
He pounded the arm of his chair
when he said anyone who thought he
might withdraw from the race before
the GOP convection ' doesnt know
Jerry Ford
J have comnlete and total con
fidenee m my ability and I bunk my
record will prove it he said.
' I get up in the morning and I can t
wait to get to the office, he said at
another point At the end of each cay,
he said he believes weve made
some progress.
Ford said he resented portrayals of
himself as bumbling and inadequate
" Some oS the tijtaga you road and
see kind of hurt your pride a little
because you know it isn t true.' he
said.
But then he recalls how other
presidents were caricatured in cart-oons.
I think you have to have a sense of
humor and to have a thick skm.
Ford said. I don t think they are ac-curate
he predicted the Democrats would
nominate Sen. Hubert H Humphrey
D- Mi- nn , for president again in 1978
and that he would defeat Reagan for
the Republican nomination and
Humphrey in the election
Indirectly, he conceded Reagan
might win the New Hampshire
primary eight weeks off and the
Florida primary March 9 He said he
expected to do " reasonably well
against Reagan, but in any case I
intend to be in the ball game right
down to the convention.
Ford said h had two New Years
resolutions
Im going to resolve that we do
everything possible to improve the
econom'c circumstances not only o
ourselves but the economic weU
being of people throughout the world
because I think it contributes to
stability not only at home but
worldwide
His other resolution he said was
a dedication to the strengthening of
spiritual and moral values among 215
million people "
The interview ran for 65 or 70
minutes. A few aides sat or stood in
the background and the 23 reporters
and columnists sat on sofas in a semi
circle around Ford
He seemed relaxed confident,
determined He appeared to tense a bit
when discussing the portrayal of him as
clumsy
' There is no question in my mind that
I have a good vision of what I want
America to be, he said, summing up
his thoughts at the end of the year Ke
scM h wants strong economic im-provement
at home, " poace within
ourselves" and thoughout the word,
and a redaction in crime
( No paper I
The Colombia Mlssourian will
not be published Friday mor-ning
Publicatioa will resume
with the Saturday morning 1
edition. J
Union label keeps
group from facilities
The University chapter of the Na
tional Education Association ( NEA)
has been denied use of University
facilities and maiing services that
another association uses.
The American Association of
University Professors ( AAUP), con-tinues
to use University facilities
because it is a long standing pro-fessional
organization not involved in
collective bargaining,' according to
Bob Kren, director of infonnation for
the University
He said NEA is denied these
privileges because of an intent to
engage in collective bargaining that
marks the organization as a labor
union.
Kren said the University denies use
of facilities to all labor Uuions.
Paul Blackwell, chairman of the
University s computer science depart
meat and president of the UMC NEA
said his organization only has ex
pressed an " intent" to engage in col
lective bargaining.
Charles Krauskopf vice president
of the AAUP, said a questionnaire
was sent to faculty members to get
reaction to collective bargaining
Other chapters of the AAUP are now
involved in collective bargaining
Krauskopf said the AAUP is not in
terested in collective bargaining It is
mainly concerned with setting stan
dards for professional teachers and
institutions, he said
1975 s a year with more ups than downs
By Karen Foster
and Lee Metcalf
Misgourlan stall wiltcis
This is the kind of year it was in
Columbia Crime was up, prices were
up, drug use was up, unemployment
was up
There were seme bright spots, too
The United Way reached its goal for the
first time in several years, Vietnam
war refugees found new homes here
and breakthroughs at the University
Medical Center saved some young
lives.
And the year was not without its
oddities.
In September, some employes of the
Columbia Water and Light Department
were forced to play cowboy when a
fence they cut allowed several calves to
escape isx the Colonial Gardens sub- divisi- or
in the southwest part of the
city
Interstate 70, juat watt of the Laka of
tile Woods exit, was a temporary
runway in October when stolen plana
crash landed. No injuries were reported
and the flying thief is yet to be found
The weather, as usual, was unusuaL
In February, a record 30 centimeters
( 12 inches) of snow was recorded. July
turned out to be the third driest month
in 86 years. And when it finally rained
in early August, it was too little and too
late for the already damaged crops
Early November had the third warmest
97& Review
In Clmafibla
temperatures on record for that period
in Columbia history, but a few weeks
later many persons were stranded in
Columbia over Thanksgiving because
of a 17.5- centime- ter ( 7- inc- h) snowfall
Drugs and crime were big news in
1975 The brutal murder of Ola
Thompson in her home aoutb of
Sturgeon in September la unsolved
Handling of the case exposed the
sheriff's department to aome critfciam.
In June, a string of service station
robberies ended When attendant
Harrison Stone shot and killed Ben
jamin Roy Tucker as Tucker attempted
to rob the station Roy Bardley, Route
8, was shot and killed by sheriffs
deputy WiOiam Whitehead in March as
Bradley attempted an armed robbery
of Nowell's United Super's liquor store.
A Boone County grand jury reported
in June that the county had became the
major drug distribution center in mid- Missou- ri.
Later that month, Peter W
Bird, 20, of SS02 Brookside Court,
became Columbia's first heroin
overdose victim In December, Cynthia
Judd, 21, of 1504 Patsy Lane, died of a
barbttuate overdose
The Columbia Police Department
reported mat drug arrests for juveniles
more than doubled, to 72
In response to rising crime rates,
local businessman BBl Lindsey set up
what he Intended as a dme- agbtin- g
group called Concerned Citizens
against Crime In August, after a
meeting with Police Chief David Walsh,
Lmdsey announced that he no longer
would discuss his organization. In
October, Lindcey claimed the group
still was active, but as an undercover
group
Food and utility prices went up here,
as everywhere Sugar prices dropped
from record highs, bat other items
increased slowly
In December, the Missouri Utilities
Co , increased natural gas rates 6 per
cent The increase followed the com-pany's
rebate to customers that was
ordered by the Federal Power Com-mission.
When General Telephone Co , asked
the Misaouri Public Service Com-mission
in December to approve a price
increase, the commission suspended
4he request until Jan 29
While tasejnpbymect rose, Cohanbia
was not effected as much as the rest of
the nation.
In February, while the national rate
of unemployment was & 2 per cent,
Columbia's wait only S per cent In
March, Cotanbia'a rate jumped to 4.1
per cent whets it remained until it
dropped 5 & lucent in September At
. year's end, taenyloyment was 3 4 per
eent
A brighter event was the United
Way's fufldxaUting campaign In
December, otHcUda reported the drive
was 103 per cent successful The goal
for the campaign was $ 340,000 It
collected $ 341,095
Columbians also donated money to
help Cambodian students at the
University get their families out of the
war- tor- n country The Boone County
Religious Council's Vietnamese
resettlement program helped bring
more than 13 Vietnamese families to
the county
The University Medical Center
recorded several livesaving " firsts"
during the year Laura Wilkins, 11, of
Hannibal, became the youngest patient
to receive an artificial heart valve
A 1 Sialogram ( 3- poun- d) boy born in
May to Mr and Mrs. Mehin Melkr,
Jefferson City, was the smallest person
ever to undergo open heart surgery
When Michelle Bradley, daughter cf
Laura Bradley, was born in October,
her veins that normally go from the
lungs to the heart instead went to her
liver Two wec& s later, she was
operated on to correct the defect and
became one of 10 persons to survive
such an operation.
Other names made news, too
John L Riddick, 65, of 7 Bingham
Road, owner of John Riddick Motors,
Inc , at 1600 Business 63 South, was
arrested Nov 21 bv federal agents and
charged with running an illegal book- maki- ng
operation in November and
December of 1973 Riddick will be
arraigned Jan 9 in federal court in
Dallas
Women made snides in employment
during the year Melinda Collins, 25,
became the first woman firefighter in
Columbia
Susan Hegg, who started as a
secretary with the police department,
went on to become the first female
undercover narcotics agent in
Columbia, in October, she came in
from the cold to begin training as a beat
patrol officer
Ellen Roper was appointed Boone
Co ty probate judge in early
December by Gov Christopher S
Bond The position became open when
Judge George Adams committed
suicide in November
Saturday a took at the Ccoaty
Court's UTS scttvtttes.

Insight
Watergate
clouds hang;
lives change
One year later,
goslty still free
waiting appeals
By Jane Deaisaa
United Press lateraatifteal
WASHINGTON It was a sonny,
almost oahny New Year's Day in
Washmgtcn last year, and in the clot
tered pressroom at the federal
courthouse a few reporters were
pSaying poker tcr paper clips.
Tbe stakes were far hitter down
the darkened seccad- fioo- r corndor
wfaere in a suite of offices reserved
for then-- use, John N Mitchell, HA
Haldeman, Join D Ertdtehtntta,
Robert C Mardian and Kenneth W
Parkinson awaited fee Watergate
verdict
It came abruptly gulry as ehargad
for all but Parfanscn, a iasysr far
Richard Nixon s 1972 re- electt- on cam
paign, who the jury decided had not
been part of the cover- u- p conspiracy
The jurors said the others who
bad held positions of highest public
trust were guilty of abusing their
power by plotting to cover up the
June 17, 1972, bugging of Democratic
party headquarters at the Watergate
HoteL
Mrs. Mardian stuck out her tongue
at US District Judge John J Sirica
Mitchell flushed. Haldeman s jaw
clenched Ehrhchman vowed to
establish his innocence.
Outside, the scene turned abruptly
Wagnerian heavy dark clouds rail
ed in with mighty daps of thunder
high wmas and driving ran.
Hie three month trial was over But
for the defendants the ordeal con
toued uves disrupted, financial
resources drained and legal bflbr on- pai- d,
careers shattered the prospect
cf pnson.
The sentences, meted out Feb. 21 by
Sinca, were substantial but not nearly
so stiff as they could have been For
their conspiracy and perjury, 2 to 8
years each for Mitchell, the former
attorney general and Nixon campaign
manager Haldeman, the former
White House chief of staff, and
Ehrhchman o ce N'xon s chief
domestic affairs adviser
For Mardian a former assistant at
toraey general and campaign aide, 10
months to 3 years for a single count
cf conspiracy to obstruct justice
Yet today, nothing is settled No one
has gone to jaQ and appeals have not
even been heard much less decided
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia will bear
oral arguments Jan. 6 one year
and five days after the Watergate
Four were convicted The court is
unlikely to rule for many weeks,
perhaps several months.
Although one lawyer involved in the
case conceded privately there wasn t
a cLme s worth of error" in Sirica's
handling oe tee complex and explosive
case the attorneys are trying to
overturn the convictions
Their appeals stress the massive
publicity surrounding Watergate that
the lawyers say, made fair trial im
possible.
They also faulted Sirica for refusing
to postpone the trial or move it away
from Washington and for allegedly
not trying hard enough to screen out
biased jurors Erhlichman, in
particular complained that he had
been deprived of his crucial defense
witness, Nixon himself
The former president was excused
from testifying because his phlebitis
brought him near death while the
trial was in progress according to
his own doctors and a court appointed
( See DEFENDANTS, Page M)
"--
C-- ' ." -- OCXS??
feSfl. Yesr- No.- 84. Good Morning! jt8 Thursday, Jammary I, 1976 3 SectkMW-- 34 Page- s- 15 Genta
All that ranasns of a staffed elephant, purchased by
brmer University president Samuel Laws m the
188Cs, is its bones. The body of what once was the
second largest Indian elephant in the world has
deteriorated overthe years. Rs bones are now In the
attic of Lefevre HaB ( Missocrian photo by Bart
Burungame)
MU white elephants
bones of The Emperor
ByDaaDeyle
ASsaooriaa staff writer
The Unrversity acquired two major
curiosities m the 1296s during the ad- txnnlstra- don
of University President
Samuel Laws the carcass oi the sec-ond
largest Indian elephant in cap-tivity
and the original gravestone of
Thomas Jefferson Both are
languishing in obscurity on the
University campus.
" The Emperor an Indian elephant
second in sue only to Barnum and
Bailey's ' Jumbo died woile w. fth a
traveling carcus m Liberty, Mo Whsn
Laws heard of the animals demise,
he traveled to Liberty, purchased the
elephant and had it stuffed for the
University
He also picked up a stuffed Bengal
tiger which was fitted on the trunk of
the stuffed pachyderm. Both were
displayed in Academic KalL
The statp legislature heavily
criticised Laws for his bizarre shop-ping
spree when be a& ed for a mm
btarsement of the money he had paid
for the eleshant Th elephant was
listed under " museum supphe.
Laws temporarily pacifiea his
critics with the acquisition of the
anginal gravestone of Jefferson it
was given to the University in 1883.
Laws had persuaded the grand
daughters of Jefferson that the
gravestone should be given to the
University of Missouri because it was
the first university west of the
Mississippi and was founded on
Louisiana "? hs? c& 2e Land
The gravestone now sits behind
Jesse Hail half hidden among pine
trees.
The Emperor was dethroned
after surviving a fire that gutted
Academic Hall m 1892 and was
banished to musty isolation in the
Lefevre Hall attic, where the elephant
remains today Nobody knows what
became of the tiger
The shadows of Jesse Hall may not
be the permanent heme of the
gravestone. John F McGowan, pro-vost
for administrative affairs came
armed with maps and blueprints to a
December committee meeting of the
University Board of Curators to sup-port
moving the marker to a more
prominent spot on Francis
Quadrangle.
It s quite a thing he said ' but
no one really gets to see it Not everyone gets a chance to see
the remnants of Samuel Lavs
elephant, ttlter On rare occasions
the skua is brought down from the at
tic of Lefevre Hail for examination by
comparative aaatowy classes.
The public may get a better chance
to view the Jefferson gravestone. The
board of curators approved relocating
the monument.
The remans of ' The Emperor,'
however, are likely to remain just
another skeleton in the University
closet
:
Two boys two homes . . . which?
MOSCOW ( UPI) An apparent
mix- u- p of two babies at birth was
discovered 10 years laterand has led
to both bos being taken from their
families and put in an orphanage,
the Literary Gazette said Wed-nesday
Now one of the boys, who the
newspaper called ' nobody s child,'
receives no visitors while the other
9 gets them all.
The newspaper said the story
started on the night of Jun 12, 1883,
when a school teacher, Ksenia
Tanasov, and a housewife, Maria
Zaldo, gave birthto boys in the same
nursing home in the Moldavian
republic.
Though Mrs. Tanasov is blonde
and fair- skinne- d, the baby she was
given Valery was dark and
' gypsy- appearin- g" Mrs. Zaldo is
dark, but her baby, Sergei, was fair
The newspaper said Mrs
Tanasov's husband, Ivan, always
had doubts about his son and his wife
tried to lighten the baby's skin with
salt
When the boy was 10, Tanasov
deddec to enter biro in a boarding
school, where he saw another pupil
who locked extremely like his own
wife He arranged for blood teste to
be done and doctors announced
Sergei and Valery were the true sons
of each other's parer- ts-.
The Literary Gazette said
Tanasov started a court process to
secure Sergei as his own son When
the ruling went against him,
Tanasov took the boy by force
Valery, meanwhile, became " the
boy nobody wanted, spending a lot of
time in railroad stations and gar-dens
and sometimes being fed by the
Zaldos."
The newspaper said there is a big
difference in tie economic status of
the two families. Tanasov is an
accountant and has two houses. Mrs.
Zaldos husband is a World War n
veteran and they have nine other
children.
Eventually, the Moldavian
Supreme Court decided the two boys
should stay In an orphanage until
they reach an age they can choose
which family they want.
By the tune of the court decision,
the newspaper said, the light
skinned Sergei had been swayed by
the better living at foe Taassov's
home and decided they were his real
parents.
A reporter for the newspaper said
he visited the boys in their or-phanage
where " there were lots of
visitors for Sergei, since both the
families believe he ia their son, while
nobody goes to Valery "
Ford predicts
victory 5 vows
strong economy
WASHINGTON ( UPI) President
Ford predicted Wednesday he would
face and defeat Hubert H Humphrey
in the 197t election and said his big
gest frustration was that he coukm t
fHp a switch so " everything turns
from darkness to sunshine for the
American people.
Interviewed by 23 reporters before
Crackling gre jn me q Office
Ford expressed impatience with the
slow pace of economic improvement
and said his New Year s hope for 1978
is for " peace within ourselves.
Turning to pofittcs, he called on
Ronald Reagan and other candidates
for his job to disclose their financial
and health records as he had done for
confirmation as vice president
He promised to spend more time in
the White House, conceded he might
lose to Reagan in the early primaries
but thought he would do reasonably
well and predicted he ultimately
would win on his record He dismiss
ed any suggestion that he might drop
out at any point
He pounded the arm of his chair
when he said anyone who thought he
might withdraw from the race before
the GOP convection ' doesnt know
Jerry Ford
J have comnlete and total con
fidenee m my ability and I bunk my
record will prove it he said.
' I get up in the morning and I can t
wait to get to the office, he said at
another point At the end of each cay,
he said he believes weve made
some progress.
Ford said he resented portrayals of
himself as bumbling and inadequate
" Some oS the tijtaga you road and
see kind of hurt your pride a little
because you know it isn t true.' he
said.
But then he recalls how other
presidents were caricatured in cart-oons.
I think you have to have a sense of
humor and to have a thick skm.
Ford said. I don t think they are ac-curate
he predicted the Democrats would
nominate Sen. Hubert H Humphrey
D- Mi- nn , for president again in 1978
and that he would defeat Reagan for
the Republican nomination and
Humphrey in the election
Indirectly, he conceded Reagan
might win the New Hampshire
primary eight weeks off and the
Florida primary March 9 He said he
expected to do " reasonably well
against Reagan, but in any case I
intend to be in the ball game right
down to the convention.
Ford said h had two New Years
resolutions
Im going to resolve that we do
everything possible to improve the
econom'c circumstances not only o
ourselves but the economic weU
being of people throughout the world
because I think it contributes to
stability not only at home but
worldwide
His other resolution he said was
a dedication to the strengthening of
spiritual and moral values among 215
million people "
The interview ran for 65 or 70
minutes. A few aides sat or stood in
the background and the 23 reporters
and columnists sat on sofas in a semi
circle around Ford
He seemed relaxed confident,
determined He appeared to tense a bit
when discussing the portrayal of him as
clumsy
' There is no question in my mind that
I have a good vision of what I want
America to be, he said, summing up
his thoughts at the end of the year Ke
scM h wants strong economic im-provement
at home, " poace within
ourselves" and thoughout the word,
and a redaction in crime
( No paper I
The Colombia Mlssourian will
not be published Friday mor-ning
Publicatioa will resume
with the Saturday morning 1
edition. J
Union label keeps
group from facilities
The University chapter of the Na
tional Education Association ( NEA)
has been denied use of University
facilities and maiing services that
another association uses.
The American Association of
University Professors ( AAUP), con-tinues
to use University facilities
because it is a long standing pro-fessional
organization not involved in
collective bargaining,' according to
Bob Kren, director of infonnation for
the University
He said NEA is denied these
privileges because of an intent to
engage in collective bargaining that
marks the organization as a labor
union.
Kren said the University denies use
of facilities to all labor Uuions.
Paul Blackwell, chairman of the
University s computer science depart
meat and president of the UMC NEA
said his organization only has ex
pressed an " intent" to engage in col
lective bargaining.
Charles Krauskopf vice president
of the AAUP, said a questionnaire
was sent to faculty members to get
reaction to collective bargaining
Other chapters of the AAUP are now
involved in collective bargaining
Krauskopf said the AAUP is not in
terested in collective bargaining It is
mainly concerned with setting stan
dards for professional teachers and
institutions, he said
1975 s a year with more ups than downs
By Karen Foster
and Lee Metcalf
Misgourlan stall wiltcis
This is the kind of year it was in
Columbia Crime was up, prices were
up, drug use was up, unemployment
was up
There were seme bright spots, too
The United Way reached its goal for the
first time in several years, Vietnam
war refugees found new homes here
and breakthroughs at the University
Medical Center saved some young
lives.
And the year was not without its
oddities.
In September, some employes of the
Columbia Water and Light Department
were forced to play cowboy when a
fence they cut allowed several calves to
escape isx the Colonial Gardens sub- divisi- or
in the southwest part of the
city
Interstate 70, juat watt of the Laka of
tile Woods exit, was a temporary
runway in October when stolen plana
crash landed. No injuries were reported
and the flying thief is yet to be found
The weather, as usual, was unusuaL
In February, a record 30 centimeters
( 12 inches) of snow was recorded. July
turned out to be the third driest month
in 86 years. And when it finally rained
in early August, it was too little and too
late for the already damaged crops
Early November had the third warmest
97& Review
In Clmafibla
temperatures on record for that period
in Columbia history, but a few weeks
later many persons were stranded in
Columbia over Thanksgiving because
of a 17.5- centime- ter ( 7- inc- h) snowfall
Drugs and crime were big news in
1975 The brutal murder of Ola
Thompson in her home aoutb of
Sturgeon in September la unsolved
Handling of the case exposed the
sheriff's department to aome critfciam.
In June, a string of service station
robberies ended When attendant
Harrison Stone shot and killed Ben
jamin Roy Tucker as Tucker attempted
to rob the station Roy Bardley, Route
8, was shot and killed by sheriffs
deputy WiOiam Whitehead in March as
Bradley attempted an armed robbery
of Nowell's United Super's liquor store.
A Boone County grand jury reported
in June that the county had became the
major drug distribution center in mid- Missou- ri.
Later that month, Peter W
Bird, 20, of SS02 Brookside Court,
became Columbia's first heroin
overdose victim In December, Cynthia
Judd, 21, of 1504 Patsy Lane, died of a
barbttuate overdose
The Columbia Police Department
reported mat drug arrests for juveniles
more than doubled, to 72
In response to rising crime rates,
local businessman BBl Lindsey set up
what he Intended as a dme- agbtin- g
group called Concerned Citizens
against Crime In August, after a
meeting with Police Chief David Walsh,
Lmdsey announced that he no longer
would discuss his organization. In
October, Lindcey claimed the group
still was active, but as an undercover
group
Food and utility prices went up here,
as everywhere Sugar prices dropped
from record highs, bat other items
increased slowly
In December, the Missouri Utilities
Co , increased natural gas rates 6 per
cent The increase followed the com-pany's
rebate to customers that was
ordered by the Federal Power Com-mission.
When General Telephone Co , asked
the Misaouri Public Service Com-mission
in December to approve a price
increase, the commission suspended
4he request until Jan 29
While tasejnpbymect rose, Cohanbia
was not effected as much as the rest of
the nation.
In February, while the national rate
of unemployment was & 2 per cent,
Columbia's wait only S per cent In
March, Cotanbia'a rate jumped to 4.1
per cent whets it remained until it
dropped 5 & lucent in September At
. year's end, taenyloyment was 3 4 per
eent
A brighter event was the United
Way's fufldxaUting campaign In
December, otHcUda reported the drive
was 103 per cent successful The goal
for the campaign was $ 340,000 It
collected $ 341,095
Columbians also donated money to
help Cambodian students at the
University get their families out of the
war- tor- n country The Boone County
Religious Council's Vietnamese
resettlement program helped bring
more than 13 Vietnamese families to
the county
The University Medical Center
recorded several livesaving " firsts"
during the year Laura Wilkins, 11, of
Hannibal, became the youngest patient
to receive an artificial heart valve
A 1 Sialogram ( 3- poun- d) boy born in
May to Mr and Mrs. Mehin Melkr,
Jefferson City, was the smallest person
ever to undergo open heart surgery
When Michelle Bradley, daughter cf
Laura Bradley, was born in October,
her veins that normally go from the
lungs to the heart instead went to her
liver Two wec& s later, she was
operated on to correct the defect and
became one of 10 persons to survive
such an operation.
Other names made news, too
John L Riddick, 65, of 7 Bingham
Road, owner of John Riddick Motors,
Inc , at 1600 Business 63 South, was
arrested Nov 21 bv federal agents and
charged with running an illegal book- maki- ng
operation in November and
December of 1973 Riddick will be
arraigned Jan 9 in federal court in
Dallas
Women made snides in employment
during the year Melinda Collins, 25,
became the first woman firefighter in
Columbia
Susan Hegg, who started as a
secretary with the police department,
went on to become the first female
undercover narcotics agent in
Columbia, in October, she came in
from the cold to begin training as a beat
patrol officer
Ellen Roper was appointed Boone
Co ty probate judge in early
December by Gov Christopher S
Bond The position became open when
Judge George Adams committed
suicide in November
Saturday a took at the Ccoaty
Court's UTS scttvtttes.